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French heat deaths point to health funding crisis

October 17, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

The World Health Organization has ranked the French health insurance system, where the labor movement is involved in its policy-making from top and bottom, as the best in the world.

Zeal for market: But what about justice?

October 17, 2003 By Greg Godwin

In a recent column on “Socialist Market Economy,” Erwin Marquit argues for the merits of market-based economies and against the deficiencies of planned economies. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the European socialist community,...

Arnold moves to pay back energy traders

October 17, 2003

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t even taken office yet and already he and his Republican handlers are moving quickly to make California “business friendly.” They are scheming more deregulation of the electricity market, certain to hit Californians...

National Clips

October 16, 2003

SOUTH BEND, Ind.: Cheney picks up checks, anger Vice President Dick Cheney thought it was a garden variety $2,000-a-plate luncheon, but outside the Notre Dame University’s Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center, hundreds of students, community residents...

GOP dirty tricks in Philly mayors race?

October 16, 2003

PHILADELPHIA – The FBI admitted on Oct. 7 that it bugged the office of Mayor John Street’s office. Later that day the FBI confiscated Street’s personal e-mailing device. Street said the FBI said he is not...